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Racial Hygiene Medicine under the Nazis

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ISBN-10: 0674745787

ISBN-13: 9780674745780

Edition: 1988

Authors: Robert N. Proctor

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Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a passive scientific community coerced into cooperation with the Nazis fails to grasp the reality of what actually happened--namely, that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy. The book presents the…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Giancarlo Succi is Professor of the Faculty of Computer Science and Director at the Center for Applied Software Engineering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.Robert N. Proctoris Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and author ofCancer Wars, Racial Hygiene, andThe Nazi War on CancerHe is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Introduction
The Origins of Racial Hygiene
""Neutral Racism"": The Case of Fritz Lenz
Political Biology: Doctors in The Nazi Cause
The Sterilization Law
The Control of Women
Anti-Semitism in The German Medical Community
The Destruction of ""Lives Not Worth Living""
The ""Organic Vision"" of Nazi Racial Science
Medical Resistance: The Association of Socialist Physicians
The Politics of Knowledge Epilogue. Postwar Legacies
German Medical journals under The Nazis